Happy Tuesday Have out your… 1. synecdoche poem. 2. stanza notes.
Poetry Worksheet #3
Novel 1 Project Due Monday, 2/27 *****Bring your books/projects on Today and Thursday this week. *****
SELF CHECK 1. Is your reading done? 2. Have you answered all the questions on the worksheet? *If you can answer YES to both of these, you are on schedule for this class. Congratulations! If not, you are behind.
ESTABLISHED STANZA FORMS
Theme Death comes unexpectedly. Appreciate and cherish the people in your life!
Sonnet a 14 line lyric poem
“Holy Sonnet 10” by John Donne
Personification = Donne’s facing Death head-on
Italian Sonnet Ø 14 line poem Ø 8 lines rhyming abba (memory trick: crazy Italian man) Ø Last 6 lines rhyme by twos and threes
Dactylic Foot poetic foot that contains one stressed and then two unstressed syllables
“Sonnet 29” by William Shakespeare
English Sonnet Ø 14 line poem Ø 3 quatrains— abab, cdcd, efef Ø final couplet— gg
Anapestic Foot poetic foot that contains two unstressed and then one stressed syllable
Three Quatrains: Speaker’s Situation & State of Mind 1 st Quatrain Isolation 2 nd Quatrain Envy 3 rd Quatrain New Thought Couplet: Mood Change Contentment
Theme: A friend’s loyal love is more valuable than social standing.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. Proverbs 27: 17